Clipto, a San Francisco-based startup with additional teams in Singapore and Hong Kong, has secured $15 million in an all-equity funding round, valuing the company at $250 million post-money. The investment was led by HSG (formerly Sequoia China), GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, Palm Drive Capital, and individual investors Hans Tung, Lu Zhang, and 522 Ventures. Clipto’s software indexes videos, audio, images, meetings, and other files on a user’s computer, enabling search through natural language descriptions or via AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, eliminating the need to manually scroll through folders.

Founded in 2023 by Henry Kang, who has over two decades of experience working on related technologies—including AI-driven object recognition during his PhD at Carnegie Mellon and a previous startup acquired by Tencent—Clipto aims to address the challenge of managing the abundance of digital content. Initially targeting video creators, the platform now serves a diverse user base including lawyers, doctors, researchers, marketers, HR professionals, professors, and students. Clipto claims over 30 million users since launch and hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers, with a significant portion maintaining subscriptions for over two years. The company reported $15 million in annual recurring revenue at the beginning of 2026 and remains profitable on a net-income basis, employing just over 20 people across its locations. Recently, Clipto integrated support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing secure, user-authorized access to indexed data by AI applications directly on the user’s device, without cloud dependency. The new funding will be allocated towards enhancing AI models and computing infrastructure for consumer hardware and expanding integrations with additional AI agents. Read more at TechCrunch

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